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Ashley Judd is looking for a house to rent in London. She is said to be willing to lay out up to £1,500 a month and wants to be near Hyde Park or Holland Park so that she can walk her dog.

But why does she not go the whole hog, if she is forsaking Tennessee and her clannish singing family? She, and her motor-racing beau, West Lothian’s Dario Franchitti, already own a house in Scotland, where there is surely ample space to exercise a pooch, without it costing her a penny.

Ilan Volkov, the BBC Scotland Symphony orchestra’s wunderkind chief conductor, is taking the unusual step of looking for a house to buy in Glasgow.

Internationally renowned conductors such as Volkov, 27, an Israeli, tend to jet in and out for each performance. Perhaps it is a safety issue. After all, whatever Glasgow’s reputation, the risks of warfare and